I only noticed the REALLY obvious ones, like the Daring Do/Indiana Jones and Con Mane/James Bond.

Although I'm please to say that when I saw the ending of Return of Harmony Part 2 I was like 'Hey, this looks like Star Wars. Hey wait, this is exactly like Star wars!' Only real fans of Star Wars could have known, at least ones that had seen "A New Hope" anyway.

Why does this show have such a massive fanbase compared to the other similar shows?

I'm not sure why, I know I like it because I like shows with strong characters and fun/engaging story-telling. I can't speak for everyone else though, and I tried to google it for you and there doesn't seem to be a clear answer. I can provide a video that can explain the roots of it though;

le edit: Found that on April Fools Day a list of episode names were released. AS you'd expect, these are probably fake, I'mma post them anyways cause they's hilarious; (bits in bold are my comments)

■01 & 02: Wingin' It Cause Twilight's got new wings, but I'd be thinking that because of the

teaser, that this is not so far fetched, whether or not it's the season opener is another thing...[/b]

■03: Now You Sea Them… Ok, so I don't know much about the supposed "seaponies" from gen1, but I wouldn't mind seeing out that would turn out... if it happened, which I don't think it will, not this season anyway

■04: Meet Princess Skyla Because Shining and Cadence should totally have babies. And then Pinkie Pie can do babysitting again.

■05: The Student Becomes the Teacher: The Return of Sunset Shimmer Sunset Shimmer probably won't make an apperance this season, I would maybe like to see her in the season 5 premiere maybe?

I know there's a Pinkie Pie and Applejack family ep, but I doubt very much about Pinkie becoming a princess[/b]

■08: Don’t You Dare - Rainbow Dash threatens to leave the Daring Do fandom when they turn her hero into an Earth Pony. This is a tease to those who threatened to leave the fandom when Twilight became an Alicorn. Very funny ><

■09: It Ain't Easy Being Cheesy - Justin Bieber guest stars in our musical episode. (Continues in 16) And then Sweetie Belle beats him in a singing contest and then RD hi fives him in the face with a Rainboom

■10: Oops - Rarity is the star of a play but is replaced by AJ.Twi forgets and tells everypony RY is the star. Ponies are pissed. I don't even...

■11: Bats - It's just like the musical "Cats", but with, you know, bats. And ponies. But mostly bats. Nana nana nana nana...

■12: The Return of the Return of Harmony - Discord is back! And his new personality is kind of meh. Stupid writers Pfft, hah! It was one of the writers who tweeted this, glad to see they can poke fun at themselves

■21: It Ain't Easy Bein' Weezy - a hilarious parody of The Jeffersons. Look, they can't all be gold, people. So they're Silver?

■22: Best Pony - New pony comes to town and she’s cool and likes craft beer and Legos and has a typewriter Cutie Mark Someone's self-inserting OCs

■23: Spike and Rarity Sittin’ in a Tree - Nothing happens. That would just make things weird between them. Plus, his ex is totally psycho. Plot twist: his ex is Rarity's sister, that's why they're sitting in the tree, to escape from her psychoness

■24: Let the Games Begin - Shining Armor and Cadance join the professional wife-throwing circuit. Destroy the competition.

Okay, despite... massive scepticism on my part... this show is actually rather funny.Quite a masterful reinvigoration of an incredibly random franchise. I wouldn't go out of my way to see it or anything, but with nothing else to watch TLF lent us her copy and... yeah, it's kind of cool.

I thought I said Youth Group Fundraiser to you when I was there last, maybe you didn't hear me. But yes, I shall visit you tomorrow and we can have our own fund raiser, with blackjack and hookers! Oh wait, you can't afford fun things? Forget the blackjack and the hookers. Ah screw the whole thing.

I didn't mind the film that much, though I can see why many wouldn't.Oddly the main thing that bothered me about it was the humans retaining pony names, which just... those aren't human names, is all. People are not called Pinkie-Pie or Fluttershy. If that was supposed to be a representation of our world (ignoring the unusual skin colours), then it fails with the unimaginative naming.

after a destructive magical battle, revelations of sentient horses from another dimension, students becoming powerful demigods and everybody almost being turned into a zombie army, they all just... go back and finish the school dance? Really? So a no to calling in the Air Force, the CDC, FEMA, Lawrence Livermore Labs, and everybody? No? Just going to carry on like none of that happened? Hmm. Damn it, cartoons - BE MORE REAL!

The people were all different unnatural colours and called things like Pinkie-Pie and Fluttershy. Why would they call in the Air Force, etc? It was just a normal day in their world. You have to see it from their point of view, or you'll never make it as a Bronie/y.

Airforce = Wonderbolts in the pony world. (at least that's the impression that I get) and they only have interceeded twice in the series, both times being ineffective (although you could argue that Rarity got in the way of her own rescue in Sonic Rainboom.) If the human world did have an air force, they would be perhaps just as ineffective.

Fun has a connotation of being an amusement quality, while enjoyable is weighted more toward having a pleasurable experience, both qualities that I wished to accentuate while preserving the three-part sentence structure I desired my post possess.

I dunno, Xan... I'm a pedantic author and even I find that point of difference dubious.Also, I done read a pony graphic novel TLF done lent me. Hilarious. So many movie parodies! It's funny because kids wouldn't get most of it.

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